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7 Unexplained Movie Moments That You’ll Only Get If You’ve Read the Book (Or...
Remaking a movie is a tall order, and transitioning a story from another medium to film is even tougher. So it’s no surprise that details frequently get changed to accomodate a new era of filmmaker or...
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5 Weird Ways Disney Buying Lucasfilm Just Changed The Future
Though it’s definitely the biggest and most immediate piece of news, there’s more going on with Disney’s acquisition of LucasFilm than just the release of Episode 7. For starters… 5. According to...
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The 8 Worst Parts of Prometheus Made Sense In the Original Script
Whether you loved it or hated it, there’s no denying the fact that Prometheus was pretty polarizing — most obviously because everyone reading this probably either loved it or hated it. Among those who...
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A Brief History of Slavery at the Academy Awards (or 5 Films That Prove Oscar...
After I saw Django Unchained for the first time, I jokingly tweeted that it was going to be funny when a bunch of white people get nominated for Academy Awards for this movie about slavery. Then the...
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6 Major Scenes From ‘The Wolverine’ Trailer Copied From Earlier X-Men Movies
The trailer for The Wolverine hit last week, and everyone who loves violence in their comic book movies got pretty excited since Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is the only superhero appearing in movies...
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4 Weirdly Specific Ideas Showing Up in Every Sci-Fi Blockbuster This Year
What with Iron Man 3, Oblivion, Elysium, Pacific Rim and the myriad other blockbusting sci-fi movies coming out, 2013 is shaping up to be a great year for the genre. If by “genre” you mean “these four...
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NBC’s New TV Shows Are the Same As FOX’s New TV Shows
Fox and NBC have announced their fall lineup, and it’s hard not to notice some similarities between their offerings. Even beyond the standard “here’s a family comedy! Here’s a parenting comedy! Here’s...
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Using Psychology and Human Pre-History to Explain Why ‘Arrested Development’...
I’m not a big fan of TV Shows with laugh tracks. It might be pretentious, but it always seemed like laugh tracks were a crutch for shows with bad writing, like hearing it made you more likely to laugh...
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How ‘Pacific Rim’ Got Kaiju Wrong
Pacific Rim really screwed up the kaiju. I don’t mean that the way you think. The CGI in this film was beautiful — the meticulously crafted combat sequences reignited an excitement for computer...
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Hate It or Love It, the Ending of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Is Going to Age Well
CBS On a filmmaking and storytelling level, the How I Met Your Mother series finale “Last Forever” was pretty sloppy. But the central point — killing the finally-named Tracy and having Ted end up with...
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